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whay not ?
Well, lowendspirit forums is hosted on a 64mb VPS.
but, i doubt it.. It's probably on an E3, with a /16 assigned to it etc. Remember, this is Colocrossing we are talking about..
It used to be when it was at its peak and it managed really well, these days (for literally no good reason) it takes up a cluster of servers, which is bonkers and it runs worse.
Why you say?
Because apples.
I think LE(B/T) is hosted on a cluster of dedicated servers.
yep
Considering the interests of the LE(B|T) community, it would be cool to host the sites on some LEBs.
However, there's always a ton of drama which often attracts some trigger-happy DDOS folks.
... and quite some load to handle. Even if they wanted to host on a virtual machine iut couldn't be that low end...
it previously worked fine on 64MB but not many where happy when Chief sold out to cc
I doubt LET is hosted on 64MB box.
On Raspberry pi clusters?
owners dont give two shits about community interests
Not like CC is able to manage anything - So they just have some dedis running LEB/LET instead of optimizing it.
lol
What is it hosted on these days?
It runs on a cluster of 3 E3-1240 servers, of which it's load balanced between all three, plus two firewalls in an active / failover configuration.
We can survive a failure of 2 application servers and one firewall before the site is down for any significant period of time.
As far as it "running worse", I guess I'd have to know what people are talking about as it seems rather fast to me. There was a problem with email however that didn't have anything to do with the cluster.
The site could be hosted on 2 7$ servers and would be as fast as it is now.
One would also like know which firewall, as CloudFlare is in front and you can't filter IPs on a network-level then.
I have to give it you, I rarely see any downtime or problems from the LET website. /s
Thanks for the comment regarding the servers, I will certainly keep that in mind going forward and consider moving the site to two $7.00 VPSs.
So in this config where is the database?
On the application servers in their own respective containers.
If it's a nextgen firewall (That's what the vendors call them, not my term) it will be L7 aware and able to inspect any http traffic going towards the site, So it will depend if cloudflare passes the origin ip in the headers which I think they may do.
Servers...so are you using MySQL replication to keep each server in sync? Just curious.
I guess it's the way they are doing.
It's MariaDB with Galera.
Awesome.
The people at MariaDB are doing great things, the product is a lot better then MySQL under the stewardship of Oracle.
In terms of performance it's not really better than other master-master replications, but it's definitely the easiest one to configure and has just little flaws.
What flaws have you uncovered? I've been using it quite a bit for our internal infrastructure and have found it to be quite stable.
There's stuff that doesn't work, e.g. delayed insert queries that can be usefull for caching. I had some applications where you had to find a workaround for this stuff.
I also saw some complex databases lock up from time to time, causing some minutes of downtime.
For my usage, mariadb-galera isn't worth the slowdowns it causes in the setup I run. On a large xenforo site I run I had a galera-cluster running for some weeks and I noticed that the overall performance was worse.
For vanilla with only a few to no addons this surely can work very well, but if you're using ~25 addons and run some very db-heavy stuff like a very active shoutbox you will see the performance go downhill.
Are you splitting your read / write queries?